A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact, the word "bacteriophage" literally means "bacteria eater," because bacteriophages destroy their host cells. All bacteriophages ...

Bacteriophages, natural "predators" of bacteria, are considered one of the alternatives. The Laboratory for Metagenome Analysis at the Skoltech Bio Center works on the research on bacteriophages ...

Viruses that infect bacterial cells are called bacteriophages. Their main goal is to produce more bacteriophages by injecting their genome into a bacterial host cell, using the host cell machinery ...